[blindlaw] Why print-disabled people should thankthe AuthorsGuild...

[Tim Shaw]

what i dont understand is if they think the kindle reading the text to us is a copyright violation, isnt everything a normal screen reader reads therefore a copyright violation if its copyrighted material?
 
> From: angie.matney at gmail.com
> To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 07:19:30 -0400
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Why print-disabled people should thankthe AuthorsGuild...
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> Actually, it's the authors guild, not publishers, who are objecting. And
> from what I've seen, the Authors Guild is thought of as extremist by many
> authors. Some publishers have made blog posts condemning the Authors Guild
> for its actions.
> 
> 
> Angie
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of James Pepper
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:16 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Why print-disabled people should thankthe
> AuthorsGuild...
> 
> The author of that blog is an expert in making textbooks accessible to the
> blind for the state of Georgia and Maryland. Robert Martinengo. He
> actually is on the side of accessibility and he makes a point, you are going
> to have to deal with the copyright holders.
> 
> Right now publishers convert books to Daisy but they are the ones doing it
> and Kindle did this work without their permission. They just did it and
> created a new format for publication without asking anyone, without
> receiving any permission from the publishers to take their content and make
> it readable in this format.
> 
> Kindle is not the only format out there and given the recent developments in
> making Talking books we are going to see a lot more content.
> 
> I think that if everyone would calm down about this and just directly poll
> the publishers you may find that as long as they are not pushed into this,
> they will continue to create Daisy Books. They have enough problems right
> now with sales.
> 
> And what I do not understand is why anyone would be against Kindle because
> the books are not free, you have to pay for them, so with Kindle they would
> get a royalty on converting books to be accessible.
> In Daisy format they have to do this at their own expense.
> 
> Of course the flip side of all of this is that publishers have always had
> the option to not publish their work. It is their work. So there needs to
> be an attitude in all of this of negotiation because providing books in
> Daisy format has been a voluntary effort and they could easily go back to
> the days of straight text files, unformatted but compliant to Section 508
> regulations, instead of formatted Daisy, Talking books or Kindle.
> 
> James Pepper
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